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I have similar findings. I fast regularly and take cold showers. Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times. You don’t even t

I have similar findings. I fast regularly and take cold showers. Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times. You don’t even think about food which is harder if you have two to three meals per day. Edit: for those wanting to try this lifestyle, everybody is different. do your own research before jumping into regular fasting or even cold showers. Max time without food I did was 6 days, since then t it he max is 72 hours. Do blood work regularly and if you drink coffee be aware that caffeine withdraws are painful.

gametorch 10mo ago
> Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times. It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year. I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.
- SoftTalker 10mo ago
  I only eat breakfast intentionally, as I am not really hungry in the mornings. But as I understand it, it's better to get your calories earlier in the day than late, so I make myself eat in the morning.
  - anonzzzies 10mo ago
    When calory restricting I do this too: I am actually never hungry before 11 am while I get up at 5 am always but I force myself (at 8) and don't need anything else the rest of the day because of it.
  - ricardonunez 10mo ago
    I am testing it at the moment. I read that cortisol levels raise after 14 hours or so of no food. So I decided to eat breakfast about 13 hours to see if there's any changes on my mood. I do find it that I get less cranky. Another thing, this year during mother's day I had a huge brunch, so I didn't eat anything else that day, and it worked fine for 24 hours, the problem is that I felt in comma after eating that much which is one of the reason I stopped eating lunch, I don't like to crash; what to eat solves that partially, but I still fine some slow down after eating breakfast.
- hyperman1 10mo ago
  You scare me. After life dishing out one of its lessens, I decided to get some fundamentals in order, and for me that includes 3 meals a day, with the family. Things have to get really disastrous to not get breakfast, and I don't think my kid skipped breakfast ever. Each his own, of course, but I wonder what happens in your life that this is semi normal?
  - gametorch 10mo ago
    I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning. By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it. When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't. It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 10mo ago
I cannot work when I don't eat, I'm unable to think properly. I'm not sure how people manage fasting
- sowbug 10mo ago
  If you can handle the body's switchover to ketosis, the rest of the fast is relatively easy.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 10mo ago
    I did that before, my breath becomes horrible when that happens, but it's way more manageable. Is there a way to activate ketosis before starting the fasting? That seems like it could solve my problem
    - sowbug 10mo ago
      Ketosis is your body using fat as an energy source when glucose isn't readily available. So if you deprive yourself of dietary glucose (carbs, simple sugars, etc), but keep eating fat and protein, you'll enter ketosis while eating as much sustenance as you want. Use ketone strips to tell when it happens. The breath thing is unavoidable as far as I know.
      - _yb2s 10mo ago
        Apologies in advance for the pedantic response, but the human body can generally make enough glucose from protein to keep you out of ketosis. You usually have to restrict both protein and fat to reliably induce ketosis. You can confirm this for yourself with ketone test strips. Most dieters on so called ketogenic diets are not actually in ketosis. Even more surprising is that fermentable fibers get converted into short chain fats by bacteria in the gut that are ultimately metabolized as ketones, so a diet high in those can induce ketosis even with a high carb diet. Some herbivore animals are always in ketosis, and some carnivores are almost never in ketosis unless they are starving and can’t find protein.
robocat 10mo ago
> if you drink coffee be aware that caffeine withdraws are painful. I've successfully used caffeine pills (e.g. some NoDoz brand products) for coffee replacement to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Specifically I used caffeine pills to give up coffee. I found it easy to taper down caffeine usage to zero by using a standardised dose size. Additionally pills are a habit change which helps me stick with a plan. I have tapered down using instant coffee but I found that was a little harder to police myself.

gametorch 10mo ago

> Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times. It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year. I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.

SoftTalker 10mo ago
I only eat breakfast intentionally, as I am not really hungry in the mornings. But as I understand it, it's better to get your calories earlier in the day than late, so I make myself eat in the morning.
- anonzzzies 10mo ago
  When calory restricting I do this too: I am actually never hungry before 11 am while I get up at 5 am always but I force myself (at 8) and don't need anything else the rest of the day because of it.
- ricardonunez 10mo ago
  I am testing it at the moment. I read that cortisol levels raise after 14 hours or so of no food. So I decided to eat breakfast about 13 hours to see if there's any changes on my mood. I do find it that I get less cranky. Another thing, this year during mother's day I had a huge brunch, so I didn't eat anything else that day, and it worked fine for 24 hours, the problem is that I felt in comma after eating that much which is one of the reason I stopped eating lunch, I don't like to crash; what to eat solves that partially, but I still fine some slow down after eating breakfast.
hyperman1 10mo ago
You scare me. After life dishing out one of its lessens, I decided to get some fundamentals in order, and for me that includes 3 meals a day, with the family. Things have to get really disastrous to not get breakfast, and I don't think my kid skipped breakfast ever. Each his own, of course, but I wonder what happens in your life that this is semi normal?
- gametorch 10mo ago
  I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning. By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it. When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't. It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 10mo ago

I cannot work when I don't eat, I'm unable to think properly. I'm not sure how people manage fasting

sowbug 10mo ago
If you can handle the body's switchover to ketosis, the rest of the fast is relatively easy.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 10mo ago
  I did that before, my breath becomes horrible when that happens, but it's way more manageable. Is there a way to activate ketosis before starting the fasting? That seems like it could solve my problem
  - sowbug 10mo ago
    Ketosis is your body using fat as an energy source when glucose isn't readily available. So if you deprive yourself of dietary glucose (carbs, simple sugars, etc), but keep eating fat and protein, you'll enter ketosis while eating as much sustenance as you want. Use ketone strips to tell when it happens. The breath thing is unavoidable as far as I know.
    - _yb2s 10mo ago
      Apologies in advance for the pedantic response, but the human body can generally make enough glucose from protein to keep you out of ketosis. You usually have to restrict both protein and fat to reliably induce ketosis. You can confirm this for yourself with ketone test strips. Most dieters on so called ketogenic diets are not actually in ketosis. Even more surprising is that fermentable fibers get converted into short chain fats by bacteria in the gut that are ultimately metabolized as ketones, so a diet high in those can induce ketosis even with a high carb diet. Some herbivore animals are always in ketosis, and some carnivores are almost never in ketosis unless they are starving and can’t find protein.

robocat 10mo ago

> if you drink coffee be aware that caffeine withdraws are painful. I've successfully used caffeine pills (e.g. some NoDoz brand products) for coffee replacement to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Specifically I used caffeine pills to give up coffee. I found it easy to taper down caffeine usage to zero by using a standardised dose size. Additionally pills are a habit change which helps me stick with a plan. I have tapered down using instant coffee but I found that was a little harder to police myself.